Join this year’s eel sampling - Contact the Quassaick Creek Watershed Alliance

Citizen sampling in the Quassaick Creek watershed was spearheaded by the Quassaick Creek Watershed Alliance, whose members manage the sampling program. Riverkeeper helped the Alliance select sample sites, train citizen scientists and otherwise ensure that data collection is consistent with methods used by Riverkeeper in other tributary watersheds.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Hudson River Estuary Program and National Estuarine Research Reserve support a community science eel monitoring program to track the number of young of year (YOY) eels in tributaries of the Hudson River. Along with DEC staff, trained volunteers check specialized nets daily for eels. Volunteers include college interns, middle and high school students, teachers, watershed group members, and local residents. The project provides crucial baseline data on young eel populations in the Hudson River, and gets students and community members engaged with their local streams. This report summarizes data collected by students and volunteers at several sites along the Hudson River estuary